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The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

April 3 Literary Facts

George Herbert is born

Explore: Virtue, George Herbert, The Pulley

John Banim is born

James Madison Bell is born

Martin Luther King Jr. leads American blacks in a crusade against racial discrimination in Birmingham, Alabama

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Graham Greene dies

Explore: The Destructors, The Quiet American, Graham Greene